Tropescilloscope: Mundane Made Awesome

Ordinary, mediocre and everyday tasks made EPIC. (read more at tvtropes.org)

More Tropes Comically Missing the Point Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Race Against the Clock Wrong Genre Savvy Slasher Movie Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Groin Attack Italian Films You Have Failed Me Rasputinian Death The '50s Black and Gray Morality Same Language Dub Deliberately Monochrome Historical In-Joke Poor Communication Kills Corrupt Corporate Executive Cool Shades Affectionate Parody Leaning on the Fourth Wall Red Oni, Blue Oni Woman in White Kill 'em All All for Nothing Breaking the Fourth Wall Jerkass Has a Point Final Girl The '70s Demoted to Extra Bare Your Midriff Death by Sex Mad Scientist Idiot Ball Wham Shot Word of God All Men Are Perverts Break the Cutie Award-Bait Song Adaptation Distillation Exactly What It Says on the Tin Depraved Bisexual Casting Gag Dramedy The Casanova Storming the Castle Dirty Old Man Thriller The Cameo Hate Sink Soft Glass Psycho for Hire Serial Killer Karma Houdini Funny Background Event Gender Flip Broken Aesop The Cavalry Blood from the Mouth Insane Troll Logic Not So Above It All Blood Knight Villain Protagonist Nothing Is Scarier Woman Scorned Last-Name Basis Even Evil Has Standards The Hero Dies '80s Hair Overprotective Dad Unreliable Narrator Dogged Nice Guy The Faceless Face Death with Dignity Psychopathic Manchild Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" The Starscream Stepford Smiler Artistic License – Gun Safety Action Survivor Only in It for the Money Genre Shift Dull Surprise Didn't Think This Through Would Hurt a Child Sequel Escalation After the End Blatant Lies Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane The Dreaded Sadistic Choice Amusing Injuries Martial Arts Movie Evil Is Hammy Pre-Mortem One-Liner Black Best Friend Dutch Angle The Bad Guy Wins The Place Market-Based Title The Chick Drill Sergeant Nasty Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Eiffel Tower Effect Undying Loyalty The Chessmaster Slap-Slap-Kiss The Ghost Heroes Want Redheads Car Fu You Killed My Father As the Good Book Says... Humiliation Conga Obviously Evil Say My Name Film Noir Index Malevolent Masked Men A God Am I Horror Films Male Frontal Nudity Badass Normal The Lost Lenore Silence Is Golden Enemy Mine Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Evil Plan Alliterative Name I'm a Humanitarian Shut Up, Hannibal! Totally Radical Biopic Armor-Piercing Question Meaningful Echo No-Sell Screw This, I'm Outta Here! The '80s Hollywood Law Villain Opening Scene Epic Movie The Sociopath Death by Adaptation Cain and Abel Wretched Hive Action Prologue Captain Obvious Kill It with Fire More Dakka Video Credits Anachronism Stew Curse Cut Short Animal Motifs The Reveal Chekhov's Skill Sinister Minister Bad Boss Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Anti-Hero Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Alpha Bitch Big Bad Duumvirate Morality Pet Shoot the Shaggy Dog Vampire Fiction Dirty Coward Abhorrent Admirer Manic Pixie Dream Girl Screw the Money, I Have Rules! The Mafia Animal Title Index Intrepid Reporter Bait-and-Switch Big Bad Spiritual Successor Disney Villain Death Getting Crap Past the Radar Parental Neglect A Father to His Men Punny Name Expository Hairstyle Change Reality Is Unrealistic Redshirt Army Shower Scene "Shaggy Dog" Story Bittersweet Ending Older Than They Look Reckless Gun Usage Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Big "NO!" Extreme Doormat Stealth Pun Offscreen Teleportation Random Events Plot Fatal Family Photo Gratuitous English Papa Wolf Kids Are Cruel Accidental Misnaming Only a Flesh Wound Villain Song Anyone Can Die For the Evulz All There in the Manual Lock and Load Montage Black Comedy Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Time Skip Obfuscating Stupidity Precision F-Strike Genre Throwback Dies Wide Open Riddle for the Ages Would Hit a Girl Rated M for Manly Crazy Jealous Guy Bloodier and Gorier Insistent Terminology Does Not Like Shoes Evil Sounds Deep Improbable Weapon User Naked People Are Funny One Steve Limit Fiery Redhead Film Noir Death of a Child Leave the Camera Running Call-Back Big Damn Heroes Alas, Poor Villain Red Eyes, Take Warning Actor Allusion Retcon Yandere One-Word Title Beta Couple Offscreen Moment of Awesome Noodle Incident Hong Kong Films Bullying a Dragon Race Lift Henpecked Husband Anti-Villain A Minor Kidroduction The Hero BFG Vomit Discretion Shot Missing Mom Manly Tears Together in Death Bald of Evil I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Agony of the Feet Suspiciously Specific Denial Babies Ever After Camp Gay Obstructive Bureaucrat Downer Ending Disappeared Dad Hope Spot Sequel Hook Evil Laugh Closed Circle Small Name, Big Ego Good Is Not Nice Department of Redundancy Department Not Using the "Z" Word French Films Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Ambiguous Ending Motor Mouth Humans Are Bastards Dark Is Not Evil Heroic Sacrifice Fat Bastard Eye Scream Scenery Porn I Did What I Had to Do The End... Or Is It? Bring My Brown Pants Taking You with Me Meaningful Background Event Punch-Clock Villain Villain with Good Publicity Artistic License – Biology Disney Death Cool Guns Pimped-Out Dress I Have Your Wife Australian Movies Boom, Headshot! Only Sane Man Nice Guy Badass Bookworm Costume Porn What Happened to the Mouse? Title Drop Badass Boast Gilligan Cut Stock Footage Chekhov's Gunman Slasher Smile B-Movie Fingore Black Comedy Rape Children Are Innocent Running Gag Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Revenge The '90s Dwindling Party Bound and Gagged Off with His Head! All There in the Script Cluster F-Bomb Rousing Speech True Companions Science Fiction Films Animated Credits Opening Psychological Thriller Romantic False Lead Plucky Comic Relief Ambiguously Gay Air-Vent Passageway Bavarian Fire Drill Crapsack World Neck Lift Canadian Movies Serious Business Too Dumb to Live Heterosexual Life-Partners Frame-Up Bland-Name Product Never Trust a Trailer Adapted Out Face–Heel Turn Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Real Life Wounded Gazelle Gambit Dramatic Gun Cock The Stoic Artistic License – Physics Dropped a Bridge on Him Get Out! Historical Hero Upgrade Hero of Another Story Smug Snake Pretty Little Headshots Butt-Monkey Chewing the Scenery Informed Ability Mythology Gag No-Holds-Barred Beatdown I Need a Freaking Drink Spared by the Adaptation The Smart Guy Early-Bird Cameo Male Gaze Deconstruction Shout-Out Honor Before Reason Pragmatic Villainy Hero Antagonist Gold Digger Shell-Shocked Veteran Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Pet the Dog Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Mundane Made Awesome Ambiguous Disorder Manchild He Who Fights Monsters Drives Like Crazy Adaptation Dye-Job Naïve Newcomer Match Cut For Want of a Nail No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Hooker with a Heart of Gold Bloody Hilarious Tranquil Fury My Beloved Smother N-Word Privileges Never Found the Body You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Mr. Fanservice Broken Bird Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Tap on the Head Beware the Nice Ones Bond Villain Stupidity The Stinger Flashback Foil Music Stories Central Theme Credits Gag Celebrity Paradox Horror Comedy Artistic License – Military Scare Chord Due to the Dead Paper-Thin Disguise Chiaroscuro Unusually Uninteresting Sight Call-Forward Deadpan Snarker Apocalypse How Vacation Films Super Strength No OSHA Compliance Decoy Protagonist Adorkable Large Ham All Girls Want Bad Boys Laughing Mad Jitter Cam Our Zombies Are Different Karmic Death Dressing as the Enemy Mama Bear Twist Ending Advertised Extra Never My Fault Unusual Euphemism My God, What Have I Done? Country Matters Police Brutality Neck Snap Logo Joke Recycled IN SPACE! Stylistic Suck Adults Are Useless As Himself Here We Go Again! Drugs Are Bad Brother–Sister Incest Index of Film Westerns The Un-Reveal Even Evil Has Loved Ones Calling the Old Man Out Deus ex Machina Crucified Hero Shot Film Series Well-Intentioned Extremist Rule of Funny Cool Old Lady Non-Indicative Name Overly Long Gag Daylight Horror Unspoken Plan Guarantee Ms. Fanservice Break the Haughty Ripped from the Headlines Red Shirt Double Entendre Line-of-Sight Name Did Not Get the Girl Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping War Is Hell Training Montage Dramatic Irony Ragtag Bunch of Misfits The Film of the Book Gorn Fourth Date Marriage The Great Depression Taking the Bullet Japanese Films timeperiod Playing Gertrude Real Life Writes the Plot Covers Always Lie Your Head A-Splode Bilingual Bonus Beard of Evil Laser-Guided Karma Fan Disservice Action Genre Our Vampires Are Different Adaptational Badass Disguised in Drag Tempting Fate Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Famous Last Words Does This Remind You of Anything? Bar Brawl Cool Car Important Haircut Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Manipulative Bastard Dying Moment of Awesome "The Reason You Suck" Speech Back from the Dead Eldritch Abomination Hair-Trigger Temper Catapult Nightmare Reality Has No Subtitles Establishing Character Moment Scary Black Man Pragmatic Adaptation Ungrateful Bastard Big Eater Determinator Villain Ball Peek-a-Boo Corpse Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Love Triangle Re-Cut A Date with Rosie Palms Eagleland Gory Discretion Shot The Big Guy Happily Married Almost Kiss Darker and Edgier Creator Cameo Mugging the Monster Action Girl Television Movie Index It's All About Me Freudian Excuse Greater-Scope Villain Friend to All Children The Smurfette Principle Author Avatar Shown Their Work Deal with the Devil Broken Pedestal Monumental Damage It's Personal Soundtrack Dissonance Rape as Drama Foregone Conclusion Hypocrite Failed a Spot Check Novelization Reasonable Authority Figure Refuge in Audacity You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Conspicuous CG Improbable Aiming Skills Demonic Possession Bi the Way This Is Gonna Suck Framing Device Evil-Detecting Dog Meet Cute Damsel in Distress Coming-of-Age Story Combat Pragmatist Sports Stories Distracted by the Sexy Composite Character Slashed Throat Asshole Victim Whole Plot Reference Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Bad "Bad Acting" Fantastic Racism Fire-Forged Friends Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Black Dude Dies First Wham Line Unresolved Sexual Tension Scenery Gorn Parental Incest Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! An Aesop "Well Done, Son!" Guy Sci-Fi Horror Big Fancy House Expy Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Your Cheating Heart folderlabel My Greatest Failure Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Hollywood Darkness Ass Shove Toplessness from the Back Mighty Whitey Body Horror Fanservice Extra Needs Wiki Magic Love Lampshade Hanging Cassandra Truth Take That! Ghost Fiction Narrator Ascended Extra Oh, Crap! Improvised Weapon Wicked Cultured Author Appeal Stuff Blowing Up Age Lift Mooks Arch-Enemy No Antagonist Silent Movie Vitriolic Best Buds The '60s The Musical An Arm and a Leg Bottomless Magazines Took a Level in Badass Fatal Flaw Anachronic Order Rule of Symbolism Driven to Suicide Bolivian Army Ending Exact Words Jerkass The Ace Knight Templar Fake Shemp Cool Old Guy Eureka Moment Danny Peary Cult Movies List All Just a Dream Double-Meaning Title An Axe to Grind Pay Evil unto Evil Hell Is That Noise The Lancer Christmas Movies Index Big Applesauce Names to Run Away from Really Fast Amoral Attorney Outrun the Fireball The Power of Love Historical Villain Upgrade Fish out of Water Victoria's Secret Compartment Dissonant Serenity Straight Gay The Mole Visual Pun Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Irony Historical-Domain Character Dark Reprise Jump Scare Knife Nut Red Herring Make It Look Like an Accident Artistic License – Geography Product Placement Early Installment Weirdness Killed Mid-Sentence As Long as It Sounds Foreign Faux Affably Evil Bond One-Liner I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Imagine Spot Not Quite Dead The Load In Name Only Left the Background Music On Handicapped Badass Adaptational Villainy Brick Joke Spanner in the Works The Bully Earn Your Happy Ending Fate Worse than Death Captain Ersatz Big-Bad Ensemble Gone Horribly Right Sir Swears-a-Lot Brainless Beauty Dumb Blonde Those Two Guys Empathic Environment Five-Man Band Defiant to the End Throwing Your Sword Always Works Developing Doomed Characters The X of Y Annoying Younger Sibling Pretty in Mink Roaring Rampage of Revenge Trailers Always Spoil Light Is Not Good And I Must Scream Put on a Bus Grievous Bottley Harm Evil Counterpart Better to Die than Be Killed The Quiet One Fanservice Rewatch Bonus Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Parental Substitute Red Right Hand Domestic Abuse Insult Backfire One-Man Army Mood Whiplash It Will Never Catch On Creative Closing Credits Bury Your Gays Worthy Opponent Arranged Marriage Mr. Exposition Eyepatch of Power The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Cloudcuckoolander Shipper on Deck The Dog Bites Back NO INDOOR VOICE Hidden Depths Sealed Evil in a Can Moment Killer Adaptation Expansion Evil Brit Show Within a Show Protagonist Title Spell My Name with an "S" Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Mind Screw Contrived Coincidence Book-Ends Mexican Standoff He Knows Too Much Chase Scene Heroic BSoD Politically Incorrect Villain Every Car Is a Pinto Jerk Jock Badass in a Nice Suit Off-into-the-Distance Ending Homage Military and Warfare Films Fantasy Films Auto Erotica Everyone Has Standards Rule of Cool The Alleged Car Gainax Ending Half the Man He Used to Be MacGuffin Badass Longcoat Ship Tease Smoking Is Cool What the Hell, Hero? Big Brother Instinct Diabolus ex Machina Brutal Honesty Death Glare Spiteful Spit Extremely Short Timespan Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Ax-Crazy Zombie Stories Up to Eleven Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Man on Fire Rule of Three Accidental Murder Men Are the Expendable Gender Not So Different And the Adventure Continues Cruel and Unusual Death Cat Scare Sanity Slippage Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Unwitting Instigator of Doom Artistic License – Law Hypocritical Humor Stalker with a Crush No Celebrities Were Harmed Plot Hole Not So Stoic Russian Films Becoming the Mask Evil vs. Evil In Medias Res Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil The Atoner "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Adult Fear Foreshadowing Villainous Breakdown Easily Forgiven Not Even Bothering with the Accent Dark and Troubled Past Kubrick Stare What You Are in the Dark How We Got Here Tagline Loads and Loads of Characters Chekhov's Gun Be Careful What You Wish For She's Got Legs Daddy's Girl Parental Abandonment Abusive Parents Bloodless Carnage Bowdlerise Sassy Black Woman Reality Ensues Implacable Man Hoist by His Own Petard Skewed Priorities Those Two Bad Guys Mystery and Detective Films From Bad to Worse Cold-Blooded Torture German Films Canon Foreigner The Dragon The Alcoholic Facial Horror Took a Level in Jerkass Anguished Declaration of Love Freeze-Frame Bonus Ominous Latin Chanting From Nobody to Nightmare World of Ham The Brute Beauty Is Never Tarnished In the Back The Stoner Suddenly SHOUTING! Awesome, but Impractical Card-Carrying Villain Setting Update Artistic License – History Femme Fatale Love at First Sight Heel Realization Evil Is Petty Aside Glance Betty and Veronica Corpsing A.I. Is a Crapshoot Immune to Bullets Cat Fight Documentary 20 Minutes into the Future "Awesome McCool" Name Superhero Deliberate Values Dissonance The Oner Funny Foreigner Police are Useless Maybe Ever After Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Star-Crossed Lovers Token Minority Actually Pretty Funny Kick the Dog Continuity Nod Suspiciously Similar Substitute May–December Romance Adaptation Name Change Grey and Gray Morality The Voiceless Kick the Son of a Bitch Truth in Television Catch-Phrase Lighter and Softer Authority Equals Asskicking Interrupted Suicide Berserk Button O.O.C. Is Serious Business Belligerent Sexual Tension The Vamp Once More, with Clarity! Camera Abuse Romantic Comedy No Ending Batman Gambit Death by Irony Loophole Abuse Determinator aka: The Determinator Four-Temperament Ensemble And Starring Crazy-Prepared Sexy Discretion Shot Made of Iron Adaptational Heroism Genre Savvy Heel–Face Turn British Films Really Gets Around Mercy Kill Intergenerational Friendship Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Leitmotif Only One Name Fun with Acronyms Have a Gay Old Time She Cleans Up Nicely Curb-Stomp Battle Antagonist Title Flipping the Bird Badass Grandpa Self-Deprecation As You Know Aluminum Christmas Trees Works Set in World War II Death Seeker Married to the Job Room Full of Crazy Faking the Dead Destination Defenestration Rich Bitch Drowning My Sorrows Sole Survivor Affably Evil Blackmail Posthumous Character Vomit Indiscretion Shot Major Injury Underreaction Made of Explodium Ironic Echo Those Wacky Nazis Cowboy Cop Dual Wielding Darkest Hour Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Translation Convention Stealth Hi/Bye The Remake Disproportionate Retribution Defrosting Ice Queen Bunny-Ears Lawyer Based on a True Story Meaningful Name Arc Words Guns Akimbo Instant Death Bullet Mistaken for Gay La Résistance Dirty Cop Character Development Retirony Pyrrhic Victory Not What It Looks Like Public Domain Feature Films Jerk with a Heart of Gold Nice Hat It Can Think Let's Get Dangerous! No Name Given Shirtless Scene Creepy Child Green-Eyed Monster Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Epic Fail There Is No Kill Like Overkill Sacrificial Lion Attempted Rape Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Fainting The Ditz Dark Action Girl Very Loosely Based on a True Story Properly Paranoid Only Known by Their Nickname Redemption Equals Death Despair Event Horizon Madness Mantra Retired Badass Take a Third Option Guile Hero Adaptational Attractiveness